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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
	Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com>,
	Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@arm.com>,
	John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>,
	"T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: dma-buf: heaps: Add naming guidelines
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 08:20:21 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aC0qVd1D_L-LtbxC@archie.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250520-dma-buf-heap-names-doc-v1-1-ab31f74809ee@kernel.org>

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On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 12:00:53PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> +Naming Convention
> +=================
> +
> +A good heap name is a name that:
> +
> +- Is stable, and won't change from one version to the other;
> +
> +- Describes the memory region the heap will allocate from, and will
> +  uniquely identify it in a given platform;
> +
> +- Doesn't use implementation details, such as the allocator;
> +
> +- Can describe intended usage.
> +
> +For example, assuming a platform with a reserved memory region located
> +at the RAM address 0x42000000, intended to allocate video framebuffers,
> +and backed by the CMA kernel allocator. Good names would be
> +`memory@42000000` or `video@42000000`, but `cma-video` wouldn't.

Looks good, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-21  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-20 10:00 [PATCH] Documentation: dma-buf: heaps: Add naming guidelines Maxime Ripard
2025-05-21  1:20 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2025-05-21  2:46 ` John Stultz
2025-06-16 15:00   ` Maxime Ripard

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